Baby, It’s Cold Outside Teapot Set Made With the Cricut Maker

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Celebrate the Season With Personalized Gifts

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

There’s no doubt I love the holiday season. From decorating to gift-giving, I’m a big fan of all the joy that surrounds Christmastime. 

This year, I’m having a lot of fun using my Cricut Maker to create seasonal crafts, decor, and personalized gifts. There is really something special about giving someone a present that has a personal touch. 

The Cricut Maker helps turn your personalized gift ideas into reality. There are so many tools and materials you can use for your projects! With new Maker tools like the wavy blade, perforation blade, engraving tip, and debossing tip, the options are limitless. 

When it comes to materials, you have lots to choose from:

• Vinyl: basic, mosaic, adhesive foil, patterned, specialty
• Iron-on: everyday, express, foil, glitter, holographic, mesh, mosaic, patterned, sportflex
• Paper: cardstock, corrugated cardboard, foil embossed, kraft board, scrapbook, pearl, poster board, sparkle/shimmer
• Fabric, felt, leather, wood

With the Cricut Maker, you can also use Infusible Ink to create beautiful and unique DIY projects, like custom totes, t-shirts, pens, coasters, and more. 

Tea Is a Hug in a Mug

I wanted to share with you a personalized gift I made with my mom in mind. She loves tea, especially in the wintertime, and I thought a customized teapot and cup set would be a perfect Christmas gift for her. Since she reads my blog, it’s going to be an early gift this year! 

I picked up a plain white teapot, teacup, and saucer and added some winter cheer to it. With the whimsical Babette font, I wrote out “baby, it’s cold outside” on the teapot and “warm-up” on the saucer. For the teacup, I placed two size variants of the same snowflake shape (#M101F4A5F in Cricut Design)  all over the cup (free-hand with not any specific pattern in mind). I just love how it turned out! 

Let me take you through the steps for this project.

To Create This Custom Teapot Set You Will Need:

• Cricut Maker
• Fine-Point Blade 
• Premium Vinyl in Something Blue
• Premium Vinyl in Light Gray
• Cricut LightGrip Mat
• Cricut StrongGrip Transfer Tape
• Scissors
• Teapot
• Teacup
• Tea saucer

Let’s begin with the teapot. Open up the text in Cricut Design Space. Adjust the measurements in Canvas according to the size of your teapot. Prepare the vinyl on the LightGrip mat (Light Gray for font, Something Blue for snowflake). Select Make It and follow the directions. 

Remove the vinyl from the mat, weed out the small pieces in the font, and then use the Cricut StrongGrip Transfer Tape to adhere to the teapot. 

Follow the same steps as above for teacup and tea saucer. You can find the snowflakes for the teacup here and the “warm-up” writing here.

Easy Enough for Beginners

I’m still a beginner when it comes to crafting with my Cricut Maker, so I haven’t taken on anything too challenging yet. This project was within my wheelhouse and I was very pleased with how it turned out. 

The added touches of a pretty font and winter theme elevated a simple tea set into a personal and thoughtful gift for someone I love. 

The Cricut Maker has a ton of amazing features I’m discovering every day! Whether you’re a novice, like me, or a crafting pro, the results are incredible.

The Cricut Maker Is the Ultimate Smart Cutting Machine

With the Premium Fine Point Blade, which I used for this project, you can cut intricate fonts and shapes to perfection! It makes precise, detailed cuts through most light to medium-weight materials like the Premium Vinyl I used, as well as cardstock, iron-on, poster board, and more.

It really is the ultimate smart cutting machine!

Have you ever wanted to make your own home decor, t-shirts, jewelry, party decorations, or 3D art? With the Cricut Maker, you can. With the cutting tools included, the Fine Point Blade and Rotary Blade, you can work on tons of materials, including fabric and leather, quickly and accurately. You can also purchase additional cutting tools, like the Knife Blade or specialty tips for scoring, engraving, debossing, and other decorative effects. 

For inspiration, check out the inspiration page and Cricut Design Space. The ideas are endless! I have so many saved to try. 

With the season of giving upon us, creating something unique and handmade is more attainable than ever with the Cricut Maker! 

If you’ve had your eye on one, it might be a good idea to let Santa know right now so he can deliver it as an early present. Especially if you’d be creating personalized gifts for friends and family with your new Cricut Maker, you’d basically be like an elf and why would Santa say no to the extra help?

Happy making friends!

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Emily Smith

Emily Smith is the Editor of The Best of This Life who has been writing in the lifestyle niche and creating delicious recipes for over 10 years. Her work has been featured on BRIT + CO, Today's Parent, Chatelaine, Huffington Post, The Pioneer Woman, and Food Bloggers of Canada. She writes about family, food, entertaining, home decor, wellness, travel and a litany of other topics. She loves sharing her three core values - love life, live well, share the beauty - and encourages her readers to enjoy the best of their lives every day. She lives in Ottawa with her loving husband, two darling children, and dreams of one day owning a puppy. 

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